One of the early successes in electronic spirit photography
are the efforts of Klaus Schreiber. Never heard of him? Good thing I'm
here then!

One day in 1982 Klaus and some friends were listening
to a radio show about tape recording the voices of the dead (now known
as Electronic Voice Phenomenon or EVP...a favorite thing of mine to do
if you don't mind scaring the holy hell out of yourself) when Klaus said,
as half a joke, maybe he could talk to his dead friend, Peter. He turned
on a tape recorder, invited Peter to join them and let the tape run while
no one made a noise. On playing the tape back for Laffs and Yucks after
10 minutes, a voice was heard to clearly say, "Hello, friends".

Well! You can bet Klaus lost some real friends that day!
They ran out of the house, screaming and falling all over each other.
Well, OK, I made that up but they did hear the voice. Schreiber set up
a bunch of tape recorders in his basement and eventually, at the request
of some of the spirit voices he captured, set up video cameras and TV
sets. He would just video tape a section of his basement, after asking
the spirits to show up if they were so inclined. He would then go through
the tapes frame by frame, and if he saw something, he'd superimpose a
few copies of itself to bring it into darker focus. He said he got a lot
of people - even some dead relatives and famous people. Above is a photo
of Klaus' dead daughter Karin and what he thinks is her spirit, captured
on video.

A current method of doing this is to hook up a video camera
to record the screen of a TV set which is turned to some "static",
snow channel; one that doesn't have any programming on it. Record the
TV as it's going, then after 10 minutes or so, go back and look at the
tape frame by frame. I've seen a lot of "hits" and the strange
thing is that the frame with someone in it is always clear; not some bleed
of something over the snow and static.

Could it just be errant signals of some other program?
What's the explanation if it's done on a TV that isn't hooked up to an
antenna and is incapable of pulling in even a remote hint of programming?
Some think the voices and pictures are just a type of projection by the
psychic side of imagination. Some say it's just stray broadcasts (not
sure how that'd explain images some say they've got from before there
were TVs or entities that look "not human"), or making faces
and shapes out of nothing (humans do have a tendencies to see faces in
pattern - it's how our brains are wired).

Some say since people are merely electronic energy, this
might be truly capturing those who have passed to another plane we can't
see with our less-than-technical eyes and ears.